Ottie does not like being part of a prophecy
Firstly, a human and a Shifter aren't supposed to be mates.
But twenty years ago, Daisy Parks, a Shifter, met Tymar Havenson, a human, and it was love at first touch.
Secondly, children of the two are supposed to belong to one side or the other. Full human, or full Shifter. There are no hybrids. That's not the Goddesses will.
But Ottie Havenson has a soul-bonded talking bear, magic sparkly healing-hands, a knack for sensing people's emotions, and can randomly figure out spells. And they work.
Almost-boyfriends are supposed to leave you alone after you end it. Maybe awkwardly stare in the hallway, but once it's over, it's supposed to be over.
Rhyce, apparently, didn't get the memo, as he is currently trying to murder his former fling, and possibly her family. Depends on whether he's feeling generous.
Magical-healing-hands girls aren't supposed to have mates. They're supposed to be freaks of nature, and live in a cabin in the woods as witches or something like that.
Ottie, however, discovers her mate is a Goddess chosen Shifter meant to maintain balance among all the realms. He's an Elemental Warrior, old enough to be her great-great-grandfather, and jaw-droppingly handsome.
Oh, and he made her magic go haywire, making it so that crazy-almost-boyfriend Rhyce can sense where she is, and will shortly be showing up at her house to potentially murder her.
Basically, the neat, miserable life she's planned for herself is bursting at the seams.
So when Musa, her mate, offers her safe haven in his magical castle in a land between time, Ottie really has no other option but to accept, putting her trust into the unknown, the one thing she hates the most.
However, crazy-almost-boyfriend Rhyce isn't who she thought. He's not crazy, he's part of a rebel group of Shifters determined to take down the four Elemental Warriors and, later, the Goddesses.
Ottie is about to turn normal on it's head.
Yao Yao was born as a little glutton, her appetite rivaling half a mountain.
One day, the old Taoist who adopted her passed away in meditation. At just three and a half years old, Yao Yao had no choice but to pack her small bag and head down the mountain to find her senior master.
By chance, she ended up saving a wealthy tycoon from a car accident and became the adopted daughter of the prestigious Gu family.
At first, everyone in the Gu family opposed the idea.
The Gu family matriarch tapped her cane and said, "Raising someone else's child? Careful not to end up with an ingrate!"
The Gu family head, Gu Xuesong, said indifferently, "Picked up halfway? Who knows what kind of trouble she might bring."
From the eldest to the seventh brother, their response was unanimous: "We don't want a sister!"
But this little girl, rejected by the entire family, proved herself after joining the Gu household.
She resolved the business partner issues that even Gu Xuesong couldn't handle, bringing in so many contracts that they couldn't sign them all.
She cured the Gu matriarch's chronic leg pain, to the point where the old lady was now striding around effortlessly...
Even the seven Gu brothers, one after another, benefited greatly from her presence.
It was only then that the Gu family realized they had brought home a treasure.
From then on, the Gu family's attitude completely changed.
The Gu matriarch: "Yao Yao, do you want some cream puffs? Grandma will buy them for you."
Gu Xuesong: "Yao Yao, do you want a private jet? Daddy will have one sent over to take you for a ride."
The Gu brothers: "Yao Yao, do you want..."
And so, Yao Yao secured herself a meal ticket-one of the highest quality!
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